[CentOS] Possibly OT: intermittently long response times when connecting to host

Wed Oct 29 14:18:30 UTC 2008
Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org>

David Miller wrote:
> --snip--
>> ----
>> sounds sleepy - perhaps the mysql connections drop after inactivity and
>> then it takes that long to connect
>>
>> You might just want to set up a cron script that does a curl or wget of
>> a standard page every 2 minutes or so just to keep things active.
>>
>> Craig
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> hmmm.... you may be onto something there, Craig. Since it was the same
> environment (we set up lots of LAMP servers and use a common MySQL
> backend) I gave it the benefit of the doubt when I was initially
> troubleshooting (the connection was there and everything looked sane).
> I'll take another look at that.

Also, make sure that this is not set in apache (the default is Off ...
but things like that can take massive amounts of time):

HostnameLookups On

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